At the airport I got this cute tiny optical mouse for about 15 euros. It has a retractable cord, and weighs 38 grams, nicely in line with the Eee :-) I found the mouse a bit overly sensitive, and lowered it using: xset m 5/10 If you search the internet for how to make xset changes permanent, you'll get lost: loads of options involving .xinitrc, .xsession, .Xclients, etc. etc., none of which work. I initially put the xset command in /home/eeedora/.xinitrc, which I verified to execute, but it had no effect on pointer speed. An ugly hack to make it work: create a file /home/eeedora/slowdown_mouse.sh: #!/bin/sh sleep 3 xset m 5/10 make it executable: chmod 755 /home/eeedora/slowdown_mouse.sh in your /home/eeedora/.xinitrc, add this line: /home/eeedora/slowdown_mouse.sh & (don't forget the ampersand), right before the line: exec startxfce4 It's not pretty, but it works...